Sophia Cao

Sophia Cao is an undergraduate business student at Baruch College in New York. She is interested in Chinese culture and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on multimedia.

Filmmaker flips to tragedy – Xu Wei

From Shanghai Daily: Famed comedy filmmaker Feng Xiaogang doesn’t want to be typecast as a director of light fare. So he has made “The Banquet,” a tragedy blockbuster of martial arts, murder, revenge and romance. Reviews, however, are mixed…. The action-packed film, with a budget of 150 million yuan (US$18.75 million), depicts the royal power […]

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6 Million Pirated Items Seized by End of August – China.org

From China.org: More than 6 million pirated items had been confiscated by Chinese police by the end of August as part of a 100-day crackdown on piracy, according to the Ministry of Public Security yesterday. Local police had raided more than 32,000 publication markets and distribution businesses and closed down 355 companies engaged in the […]

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Camera obscured – Jonathan Watts

From Guardian Unlimited: For a director who has just been slapped with a five-year film-making ban, Lou Ye(®ÑÁÉ®) appears remarkably unperturbed as he describes how he was hauled before the Chinese censors last Friday for a dressing-down that made headlines around the world. “I thought there would be some trouble, though not this bad,” he […]

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A golden time for weddings – Fu Yingqing

From Shanghai Daily: Wedding season is heating up again. Wedding reception host Yan Yi said he is already fully booked for the National Day holiday period. “Way too many couples are getting married this year,” said Yan. “I’ve never seen anything like it since I started this job.” There will be more weddings in October […]

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Photo series: Li Zijian’s oil painting “Nanjing Massacre” – Sina.com

From Sina.com: This oil painting, named “Nanjing massacre“, consists of three parts–“slaughter”, “rebirth” and “Buddha”. The main part of the painting is the mountain of bodies. The left part, “slaughter,” shows two Japanese military officers standing with a smile and one of them rubbing blood off the sword. The middle part, “rebirth,” shows a child […]

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